SICPA Signs Cooperation Agreement with Kazakh Telecoms Company

During a Kazakh-Swiss roundtable business forum, held on 22 November in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (and part of the official visit of Swiss President Ueli Maurer to the country), a cooperation agreement was signed between the Swiss company SICPA SA and Transtelecom JSC – one of the leading information and telecom service providers in Kazakhstan.

‘There is a great demand in Kazakhstan for the creation of innovative industries and the implementation of projects in the field of high technology, energy, agriculture, medicine and pharmaceuticals,’ said Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, the country’s president, in a nur.kz article.

Transtelecom is reported to be actively implementing what is referred to as the ‘Digital Kazakhstan’ programme, which includes the secure labelling and traceability of certain goods manufactured and sold in the country. The cooperation agreement with SICPA gives Transtelecom the sole right to use the SICPATRACE^® product labelling and traceability solution for this purpose.

The programme is intended to have a global economic effect for Kazakhstan, in the form of higher tax collections, a reduction in the shadow economy, increased seizures of illicit goods, improvements in the business environment and fairer competition.